Sebastian Fundora is officially set to defend his WBC super welterweight title against ex-welterweight titlist Keith Thurman, with the fight rescheduled for March 28 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Prime Video will have the Premier Boxing Champions card available on pay-per-view from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Fundora and Thurman met up in Los Angeles to officially announce the bout, which had been originally scheduled for last October.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re gonna go in there and do what we always do. I\u2019m gonna retain this title and remain world champion,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re feeling great. This is a fight that people wanted to see and we\u2019re happy to provide. The injury was just one of those things that happen. We just had to wait for it to heal. The more time to prepare, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thurman, 37, has had just two fights this decade, wins in 2022 and 2025 over Mario Barrios and Brock Jarvis, the latter of which was his first meaningful fight as a 154 lber.<\/p>\n
As usual, \u201cOne Time\u201d had plenty to say.<\/p>\n
\u201cI already see the mistakes that he\u2019s unfortunately gonna be making,\u201d he said. \u201cBeating me would be the greatest accomplishment of your career, Fundora, don\u2019t lie to yourself. You have been hit and not gotten off the canvas. I\u2019m happy to make you experience it again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thurman also said, \u201cWatch what happens when I hit this man\u2019s chin. He\u2019s gonna do a pretty little dance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fundora says he\u2019s brushing off Thurman\u2019s attempts to trash talk him and get into his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now it\u2019s all just talk. He\u2019s an experienced fighter, and anything can happen in boxing, but we train to be prepared for anything,\u201d Fundora said. \u201cWhen you do that, things will come out your way. \u2026 I think everybody underestimates me. That\u2019s part of the game. Whatever they say, you just have to go out there and show everyone what you\u2019re made of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thurman (31-1, 23 KO) wasn\u2019t all bravado and baiting, giving the 28-year-old \u201cTowering Inferno\u201d Fundora (23-1-1, 15 KO) some credit for his success.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I love about this fight is that there are only so many fighters from my generation who are still here today,\u201d Thurman said. \u201cThere is a plethora of young fighters who have taken over, including Sebastian Fundora. I believe in my skills and my talent. Say I\u2019m the gatekeeper, but I\u2019m the final boss.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no mind games in this sport,\u201d Fundora offered. \u201cYou have to go in there and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Fundora is officially set to defend his WBC super welterweight title against ex-welterweight titlist Keith Thurman, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-412497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}